#Shalizi’s 2002 review eviscerating Stephen #Wolfram’s book as #crank work.
#paper showing Turing #morphogenesis (an activator-inhibitor reaction-diffusion system) with FGF and Shh producing the transverse ridges in the mammalian palate.
#pdf review eviscerating Stephen #Wolfram’s book, with some interesting facts about #cellular-automata.
#pdf of Massa and Avesani’s “Trust-aware collaborative filtering for recommender systems”, a hybrid of #reputation-systems and #collaborative-filtering. Cited 574 times. #toread
Discussion thread on #machine-learning exercises in Python, commenting specifically on Andrew #Ng’s course (originally in Octave)
#machine-learning exercises form Andrew #Ng’s course in Python.
#pdf of “An open reproducible framework for the study of the iterated prisoner’s dilemma”, a #paper attempting to enable #reproducible-research on #IPD announcing an open-source library they’re calling “Axelrod”.
“Controversial Users demand Local Trust Metrics: an Experimental Study on Epinions.com Community” #pdf #paper on #reputation-systems by Massa and Avesani saying that a single “global quality score” will leave users unhappy because “controversial users” don’t have a well-defined global quality. Cited 266 times. #toread
#pdf #paper on #micropayments and #reputation-systems in multi-hop cellular networks. Cited 318 times. #DSR #toread
Raph #Levien’s first Ph.D. #dissertation from 2002, on Advogato and #reputation-systems. #pdf #toread
H.G. Wells’s 1937 idea of a “world brain” in the form of a “Permanent World Encyclopedia” as a replacement for the #encyclopedias of the day, and a supplement to the universities. #Microfilm was a major inspiration to him, although he couldn’t know the importance of photolithography to the permanent world encyclopedia we actually built, much less that when we succeeded in making “the whole human memory…accessible to every individual”, we would use that ability to spy on political dissidents, elect demagogues, and watch cat videos and porn.
A blog of criticism of the ways that current Linux works. Or doesn’t.
#Shalizi on #eigenmoses, #reputation-systems, and #Plato. “The problem of two internally-cooperating but mutually-hostile sub-populations seems insuperable for this approach.” #eigenproblems
#Shalizi explains eigenfactor.org, eigenvector-based #reputation-systems for #scholarly-communication (i.e. #bibliometrics).
Scott Alexander remarks on #eigenmoses and DW-NOMINATE.
A slightly confused brief #history of Bunker and Herbert Hunt almost cornering the #silver #futures #trading market in the 1970s, leading to an unprecedented price peak at the beginning of 1980 and their bankruptcy.
“An Overview of the #History and Theory of #Transformative-Justice” #pdf
NinjaEconomics is a pseudonym for Cynthia Than, who writes this article on #pseudonymity.
blog about #hardware troubleshooting mostly, also with his new versions of bootloaders and whatnot
Understanding the NVIC interrupt controller on the #ARM Cortex-M.